Re: Conlang Exhibit Photos & Text on Flickr

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> andrew wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2008, Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall wrote:
> >> Any possibility of a coffeetable book coming out of this?
> >
> > Or at least a disc?
>
> A coffeetable disc? That would be very large. I doubt anyone has a
> computer/DVD player that could read it! (I'm reminded of the German
> word for "table" which is "Tisch" and etymologically related to disc,
> disk, dish and discus.)
>
I assume that this is an example of Humour Not Marked?  I did mean a
computer disc of some species.

If I remember correctly this would mean that German "Tisch" is cognate
with English "desk".

- andrew.

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